Co-host of MSNBC’s weekday morning talk show Morning Joe Mika Brzezinski opens up about her struggles with disordered eating on Katie and in her new book, Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction-and My Own. In the book, Brzezinski discusses her addiction to certain food substances and decades of disordered eating – bingeing, then running excessively to burn Keep Reading →

Thank you to Council Speaker Christine Quinn for sharing with uncommon courage and insight what is unfortunately a rather common co-occurrence of bulimia and alcohol abuse. After years of secretly bingeing and purging, Quinn finally shared her eating disorder struggles with a close friend who was a recovering alcoholic, and entered a 28-day rehabilitation facility Keep Reading →

Congratulations to New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie for taking steps to address the battle with obesity that he’s been struggling with for much of his adult life. Kept under the radar until earlier this week, Christie’s lap band surgery, a procedure that separates the upper and lower parts of the stomach to limit the amount Keep Reading →

– by Irene Miller, LCSW, CASAC If your son or daughter has been diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, you may be overwhelmed by information about the wide variety of treatments available when now, more than ever, your priority is to keep your child healthy and safe during a vulnerable, dangerous time in his/her life. The Maudsley Keep Reading →

Could your sleeping pills be killing you?  Recently, the Dr. Oz show highlighted the link found between prescription sleeping aids and an increased risk of cancer or even death.   In addition, the FDA recently cut the recommended dosage of certain sleeping aids in half for women. With one in four of us using sleeping aids what Keep Reading →